On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:59:23PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
If you're using EFI, you don't need to do anything. Windows
and
Fedora have separate, independent bootloaders. The only thing you
might have to do is tell your BIOS that you want Fedora as the default
boot option.
(Unless windows does something stupid like reformatting the EFI
partition, but it really shouldn't do that and I doubt it would.)
Your last sentence is actually the question.
So: Bill Cunningham: do you still see your Fedora installation in the
BIOS/UEFI boot menu?
If yes: Either tell your BIOS - that is, if it provides this option -
that Fedora should be booted by default - or, if that's not possible,
efibootmgr might be the option to rewrite the BIOS boot sequence.
In that latter case - if you still can start Fedora via your BIOS/UEFI
- you might boot right into Fedora and run efibootmgr from there,
without the need for a Live Linux USB thumb procedure ...
Again: good luck!
Wolfgang